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Ulysse
Ulysse
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22m
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1983 • France
In this ruminative cross-pollination of film and photography, Agnès Varda uses a mysterious still image that she took in the late fifties—of a nude man (the photographer Guy Bourdin, a friend of hers) and a toddler on a rocky beach, flanked by a dead goat with a swelling belly in the foreground—as the springboard for a contemplation on the passing of time and the subjectivity of meaning in art.
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ULYSSE Introduction
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In 1983, Agnès Varda curated a selection of photographs accompanied by commentary by intellectuals and artists—the filmmaker herself included—for French television. Presented here are some of the photographs, including the one that inspired her short film ULYSSE, handpicked and analyzed by Varda ...
